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TLDR I was a very outspoken, creative, extraverted child with many passions and hobbies. As a young adult, now navigating my 20's with anxiety and depression, I know that I am excruciatingly different than my childhoodself for many reasons that where "natured" and "nurtured" into me. For the past year I've been seeking therapy, learning self-love, unlearning the disease which is chronic productivity, making peace with my generational traumas, and rekindling my creative flame. Part of my effort to rekindle my creative flame is through writing. I always enjoyed writing songs, short stories, novels (though I've never actually completed one lol), and poetry. What better way to revive this passion than to open up my good'ole wattpad account again. Side note, I was very suprised to have gotten back in with such ease given my incredibly horrid memory. Either way, all of my old poems were written as separate works so, as a way of overhauling my account, this new book is the collection of all of those old poems and will also house all of my new ones. Do keep in mind, when I joined wattpad many years ago, I was going through some pretty rough times in my life. Because of that, the first handful of poems in the book are going to have a pretty dark connotation. I am not going to say that I'll never write about pain again, because removing emotion from creativity simply makes for disingenous writing, but I will say that I'll work to make my collection of poetry a symbol of hope for myself and a collective story of perserverance as opposed to apathy towards life. Here's to my inner child 🥂 welcome home, girl.
A Playground Amid the Dark (2/20/15)
